Originally posted by Nep Parth
The novels are generally accepted as canonical.
That's no going so far as to say that there wasn't battles going on in Circe while the Intrepid was in the Spearadon system, or that Confed didn't have possession of a few Mace missiles in Spearadon, etc. The novels are what did happen, the games are what could have happened, given the same circumstances and level of technology. Blair could have become an Admiral after WC4, but didn't. Catscratch could have died, but he didn't...
Watch Clue for an illustration of this concept.
It all comes down to one question, which came first, the chicken or the egg. which came first, the games or the novels?
RFB